At a time when the basic costs of living continue to increase at a far greater pace than most wages and salaries, it’s become well known that the residential real estate sales industry can provide personal incomes that range from $100,000 to $1,000,000 per annum. This book, written during the 2008 Global Financial crisis, is a very personal account of someone who has worked step by step through a process of starting from zero to progress through to becoming a high achiever in the competiti...

If you’ve ever looked at those tiny, colorful greens on a restaurant plate and thought, “There’s got to be money in that…” — you’re right. And not just a little money. I’m talking about a lean, low-overhead, high-demand business you can run from a spare room, garage, basement… even a small apartment. How to Start a Microgreens Business is not a fluffy “urban farming dream” book. It’s a straight-talk, roll-up-your-sleeves blueprint for turning trays of seeds into steady weekly cash. No farm...

A life terminating before it had reached its meridian, can scarcely be expected to furnish materials for an extended biography. But the important position held by my late son, as second in command in what is now so well-known as the Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition across the Island Continent of Australia; the complicated duties he undertook as Astronomer, Topographer, Journalist, and Surveyor; the persevering skill with which he discharged them, suggesting and regulating the march of ...

Women Warriors: Stories from the Thin Blue Linefeatures a compelling collection of stories about women in law enforcement. From a dispatcher on the radio trying to remain calm and do her job while her husband is involved in a gun battle, to a desperate search for a missing child during a frightening storm, to a courageous lone officer staring down the barrel of a gun inside a crowded department store, the tales in this book will have your pulse racing....

At sixteen, Michael and Annie, locked out of the house, took shelter from a rainstorm in her mother's car. As Annie slept, Michael whispered a lifelong vow he'd keep until his last breath: Through Vietnam's jungles, battles scarred his body, but his heart bore the deepest wound. Decades later, he shared his story with his best friend, John. When Afghanistan took Michael's life, John fulfilled his promise, contacting Annie with an untold tale of her first love. Unaware of its depth, thinkin...

My ex-husband broke my heart, but what happens when three of his rival teammates want to put it back together?As the coach's daughter, a forbidden romance with a gorgeous hockey stud wasn't on my to-do list when I ran back to my small hometown. But now, I have three. And they're not afraid to go after what they want… me.I'm falling just as hard. D'Angelo is the cocky but charming captain with jaw-dropping good looks and piercing blue eyes. He's been my best...

In this third and final volume of A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, John Adams brings to a close his lengthy argument against "collecting all authority into one center."By first continuing his exposition of the Italian republics of the middle age, Adams acutely demonstrates the disharmony and upheaval that result from governments being improperly balanced. He then turns to theory, beginning with the letter of Padua and extending ...

In this second volume of A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, John Adams continues his argument against Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot and his theories of “collecting all authority into one center.”Delving into the Italian republics of the middle age, Adams uses pure history, extensive extracts from the works of Italian historians, to demonstrate to the American people, and the world, that the same tumult, corruption and blood that so p...

"Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust," by John Henrik Clarke, shatters the hero's-journey narrative surrounding Columbus, exposing him as an architect of exploitation. The book recasts the "discovery" of America as a brutal invasion, paving the way for centuries of Indigenous suffering and laying the groundwork for the African Holocaust – the transatlantic slave trade.Clarke argues that neither Indigenous nor African subjugation was incidental. Instead, they were calcula...

Brought to you by Penguin.Why do some ideas make it big while others fail to take off? According to award-winning behavioural economist John List, the answer comes down to a single question: Can the idea scale?Countless enterprises fall apart the moment they scale; their positive results fizzle, they lose valuable time and money, and the great electric charge of potential that drove them early on disappears. In short, they suffer a ...

This short but timely work gives the listener a sense of the urgency of African and world history at this moment in time.... Like many of the African-centered scholars who were Dr. Clarke's teachers and his sources of inspiration, he not only gives you accurate analysis and the descriptions of history, he provides prescription of what Africans have to do to bring into being a new day.